HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081367740
Bassin de Cubal
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Balombo, Cassongue
Sub-basin area
610,8km²
Upstream area
611,1km²
Discharge
8,24m³/s
Mean elev.
1 612m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 608.0 km²99.9% of basin
- BalomboBenguela · Angola0.4 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
351 distinct species · 1 336 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,5°C
Annual rain
1 120mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
434mm/an
PET
1 612mm
AET
944mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
382cm
Forest
96%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)